It’s June 10th, 2025 and the apocalyptic event of the year has happened: ChatGPT went down! I’m forced to do today’s exercise using only my human brain, which I was reminded has some critical flaws based on events that occurred in the past. I noticed feeling a bit overwhelmed by the ocean of possibility posed by today’s question. When asked to name three formative experiences, one from childhood, one from adolescence and one from adulthood, I felt like I was just throwing a dart at a dart board picking something at random and not really certain of how relevant my choice was for the purpose of the question. It makes me think that I might benefit from having a series of questions to narrow down and filter out the experiences I might select. If I had all day to spend on the exercise, I might list a hundred or 200 experiences and then go through some sort of process to identify which ones really had the most lasting impact. As it stands, I don’t have all day for the exercise, so I picked three that just jumped right out at me. I am curious about how the experiences affected the assumptions I identified on day three. I’m also noticing that I’m not enjoying the process as much on a Tuesday because I am feeling the pressure of the clock ticking and the need to get back to work. I am curious about how this Dynamic will continue to affect the rest of the 30-day cycle. I’m wondering if it would be worth thinking about which days or exercises are better to do on weekends or evenings. The problem with weekday evenings is that my brain is fried and I might not come up with good answers. But this is a practice and we will see how I get better at it over the first 30-day cycle.